jazz2love

Album:  I Love Paris Artist:  Melbreeze Label:  Blue Canoe Records Website:  www.melbreeze.com Jazz vocalist Melbreeze once again embraces the worlds of Brazilian syncopation with traces of bossa nova, rhumba, calypso, baião, and Latin swing on her latest release I Love Paris .  A compilation of classic pop tunes and jazz standards, the recording is produced by Melbreeze and her keyboardist Scott Kinsey.  The result is a sonically luxuriating ride into the after-hours cafe culture. Possessing a cabaret vocal style familiar to audiences by the likes of Celia Cruz and Dolores del Rio, Melbreeze winds her listener around her penetrative delivery.  With a flare for vocal theatrics, she drapes the lyrics in the silky textures of Kinsey's keys along Johnny Mercer's prized novelty "Autumn Leaves," basking in the rhumba pulsations of Gergö Borlai's drums and Brad Dutz's percussion.  Tim Hagans' trumpet fastens a flirtatious lift along the melodic swells. ...

Album:  Electric Fantastic Artist:  The Moore-McColl Jazz Society Label:  Self-Released Website:  www.mooremccolljazz.com Based out of Atlanta, Georgia, The Moore-McColl Jazz Society is comprised of Beth Moore (vocals, piano, Rhodes, organ) and Chance McColl (electric guitar, vocals).  The Moore-McColl Jazz Society integrate soul, blues, calypso, jazz, and a tinge of country folk into an elevating mixture.  Their latest independent release Electric Fantastic is a compilation of originals and cover tunes, featuring a selection of guest musicians and vocalists. McColl's vocals move in time with the rhythmic grooves rolling along "If You Really Loved Me," bearing a smooth strut reflective of soul/pop's The Doobie Brothers, coated in smoky blues ethers reminiscent of blues guitarist/vocalist Albert Collins.  The flavoring of blues, soul, and country folk, featuring Ben Holst on steel guitar, bring out a prismatic luster resonating through "I Remember Dann...